On 04/02/2024 16:29, Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 1/29/24 12:00, Carl Spitzer wrote:
Clean install reformatting the home partition or reusing the existing one??
https://adlock.com/blog/how-to-block-ads-on-firefox/ <https://adlock.com/blog/how-to-block-ads-on-firefox/>
Should solve most of it.
CWSIV
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:18 AM Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com <mailto:dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>> wrote:
After upgrading from 15.4 to 15.5 I get Firefox popup windows that look like McAfee messages. Like "Windows infected (18) viruses. Scan and remove with McAfee?" and "(18) viruses detected. Remove now?"
I have no McAfee software installed. What is going on?
Thanks Mark
So McAfee is pretending to hack me so I will purchase McAfee?
Mark
Saw this the other day on a PC at work, in the Chrome browser. It has nothing to do with Firefox itself. Maybe in your upgrade from Leap 15.4 to 15.5 there's a Firefox extension such as an ad-blocker which hasn't updated with the FF version bump, otherwise it's mere coincidence. On the Windows work PC it said McAfee has detected viruses blah blah blah, click here to blah blah. Since it's a PC joint used by loads of different staff who pass day and night to do whatever on one communal account, with an outdated Windows installation, it wouldn't have surprised me that one of them had installed or downloaded some nefarious thing, and other staff pointed out to me 'look there's a virus on that PC' in a semi-panic, like we should do something about it. If I hovered the mouse over the link to the thing I'm supposed to do to resolve the matter, it clearly doesn't direct to a McAfee site, just some random dodgy site. I think I just clicked some config icon upper right and elected to not show notifications from this site any more, and it's gone away. But as others have said, install an ad blocker if you haven't already. uBlock Origin works a treat. gumb